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White's life over the last forty years,both public and private. Tells the people he has known and interviewed - excellent overview of the political life of our country over the last decades.

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I'm only about one-third through the great journalist's memoir, but his stories about China in the 1930s, and the personalities he met during those years and during World War II, are captivating.Read full review

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About the author (1978)

Theodore H. White (1915-1986) was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for the Making of the President series: his accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections, all of which are being reissued with new forewords by Harper Perennial Political Classics. His other books include "Thunder Out of China", "America in Search of Itself", and "In Search of History: A Personal Adventure".